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Either don't go, or go, do your best to make good choices, and write it off as a holiday and get back to your diet plans on Friday.

Do you have better sourced, conflicting data? Almost everyone who writes about the American diet is a "scaremonger."

Yeah, if it fits on a bumper sticker it's probably not going to adequately describe something as complex as human nutritional needs . . .

You've run into one of the great limitations of MFP: It can't distinguish sugar the way you're supposed to eat it (wrapped in a whole fruit with lots of fiber) from high fructose corn syrup, fruit juice stripped of fiber, or other processed crap. In simple terms, the fiber in whole fruit prevents your body from processing…

Respectfully, Malavika413, there are some flags in your statement that I hope you'll consider. First of all, the choice of whether to go party is entirely up to you. Not your friends, not your boyfriend, you. Second, going to a party won't require you to drink. It might be boring if you're the only sober person there, at…

You have the opposite problem from the majority of Americans, and the minority's problems are never taken seriously (look at Ferguson, Missouri.) So people will probably always say weird, unhelpful and dickish things to you. Fortunately, you're not getting your health back for their sake.

In my opinion, for most people to lose weight we need to hold the line on calories, hold carbs relatively (but not drastically) low, and completely cut out foods with *added* sugar, which means most things that are baked or otherwise processed. It's hard for most people to indulge a little bit without eating much more than…

If you're counting calories you don't go to a Chinese Buffet. Or any buffet.

Cutting back on carbs, particularly sugar, may be the most effective way. Minimizing fats is a bad idea which unfortunately dominated diet thinking in the 80's and 90's. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/01/344315405/cutting-back-on-carbs-not-fat-may-lead-to-more-weight-loss

You're right, that was dismissive and sexist of me. Eating disorders are becoming much more common among men and boys, and I should have said people who think they're too old for ED.

Like kshadows and britishbrocco said, any weird, magical or extreme diet that looks more like an eating disorder with pretensions.

Recent studies have indicated that caffeine consumption temporarily speeds metabolism and also abets exercise. So yes, but probably to a very small degree. The most significant ways it can help are if 1. you're drinking black coffee instead of sugary drinks and 2. if it helps you feel like getting up and moving around.

Sounds like a plan for women who think they are too old to have eating disorders.

For weight loss purposes you should focus on calories regardless of what form they come in. For general health purposes you should get the right amount of fat, protein and carbohydrates, and the right kinds of each (monounsaturated fats good, trans fat and saturated fat bad.) The general guidelines say about 25-30% from…

You already look pretty good in it to me!